Terms and conditions of use
Wine cooler
(c. 1790)
Medium
stoneware (green and yellow jasper)
Measurements
26.3 × 28.3 × 23.2 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented through The Art Foundation of Victoria by Mr Keith M. Deutsher, Founder Benefactor, 1993
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work
This barrel-shaped wine cooler is decorated with a frieze of male and female banqueters reclining in the ancient manner of a symposium or drinking party. The figures are set in a central band between areas of dice pattern with cane yellow quatrefoils in the white squares. The ‘Banqueters’ design was prepared for Wedgwood by Guiseppe Angelini in Rome in 1789. It was modelled after the Sarcophagus of the Muses, formerly in the Albani collection and the Capitoline Museum, now in the Louvre, Paris.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Staffordshire, England
Inscription
impressed (vertically) in base c.l.: WEDGWOOD
Accession Number
D13-1993
Department
International Decorative Arts
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited
Physical description
Barrel shaped vessel with swan-neck handles terminating in spreading wings, decorated with a band of male and female figures in the antique manner.